Growing up with 13 vhf, and a few uhf channels, TV changed from black and white to color. Life and the values allowed on air helped raise, and educate our country as no other nation before, or since. Family and friends shared their TV rooms, and their lives. Many became doctors, police, fireman or some other life they saw on the screen. All of America and the world saw us on the moon. We laughed or cried, we were scared or entertained in our own homes we were informed of local and foreign affairs. All of this with no cost to either pocket or soul. What we saw was controlled or regulated to protect us from as it turns out now, a society without values that would have advanced. Gone are the censors and the family values in record time as the number of channels and sources increased. Money buys airtime for both right and wrong. Nothing of value survives when the dollar is worshiped by all. How many minutes of good news, compared to the hours of bad do we see or hear today? How many families sit down together for dinner, then shared TV and discussion today? More channels and outlets, equal less values and family worth. Today we have shows promoting life styles once considered both immoral and illegal in the past. Biased news and views helping to confuse or distract us from the truth. Generations emerging with no morals or plans. The streets, schools and homes are re-enactments of the life styles portrayed on the screen. Forgotten are the values that once made us great.

From the child to the leaders respect has been replaced with excuses. Money has value, while life itself does not. Hoods replaced neighbors, self respect replaced by self interest. Father’s abandoning families, mother’s without respect. The young and old now prey instead of safe both here and abroad. Brothers and sisters, whole families, now share only their genes. American’s hiding and suffering at the hands of their own. We have done to ourselves what no enemy could ever hope to do. So turn of the TV’s, computers and get turned on to life. Go backwards to see the future improve. Get your family to remember you are related to each other. Get out of the house and know your neighbors so the enemy stands out from the crowd. Life is not an episode.

Five ingredients to terrorism

First and foremost you must be a coward at heart, afraid to stand face to face with your own, never the less others. A fool following self serving leaders, harming their own people be they man, women or child.

Second, a need to shame religion by sending so many innocents to their makers in their name.

Third in line is the lack of respect for all the mother’s, without which no human life would exist.

Fourth would be a limited intelligence on a massive scale. A curriculum of lies, envy and hate, blended with their daily treatment, teaches the desired lessons and lack of values for life.

Fifth is the disappointment you were to those who gave you life. No sane parent ever dreamed their child would take the lives of innocent people, or allow this to happen. Birth is life, killing is death, simple enough to mom and dad.

If I was president Obama’s BFF

The first thing I would say to him each day would be “Simplify.” Stop over thinking and do what you know is right. Tell the people that solutions to age old problems are in their hands. Schools need only to strictly enforce a dress code by all to end gangs, envy, distractions from learning. This would greatly reduce the cost to both parent and society. Start putting the millions out of work, to work across America by placing all utilities, drainage, shelters, communications underground. Cover all roofs with liquid solar conductive material, helping to solve energy, conservation and global warming and consumer cost. Place two-three year renewable photos on social security cards, along with any drivers or non-drivers, or government identification cards. This would help to solve problems with immigration, employment along with fraud and security issues. Do away with special interests nation wide that aren’t in the citizens best interest as a whole, not as a group. Remind the people they alone hold the power to help America by returning to the streets and parks as neighbors, reclaiming them from those who wish us harm. No crime can be committed if we all stand together against those that try. By knowing who, or what is going on in our neighborhoods would save lives, money, and America. Tell them to start today by family first, then our towns and states. If we stop allowing our own to commit crimes unreported, society will benefit as a whole. Stop allowing bullies, criminals, any thing against mankind to go unchecked, and the cost of everything will come down.

Terrorists are able to hide here because we no longer know our “neighbors”. This is the enemies best weapon of concealment. They can blend in everywhere unnoticed by moving next door to any one of us it would seem. How often do you here someone say they never knew about someone living there. Name the enemy you want and he may live next to you, your store, your church , your job, your schools. Passing on the streets, subway, bus or plane unseen while in plain sight of everyone. Your vacant and foreclosed homes, plus the need to rent, offer shelter to no neighbor. Census time you would imagine would account for everyone.

No one could possibly live amongst us today if we brought back the neighbor in the hood. Do you know the names of the family’s across the street or on either side of you. That one or the other you see or hear, are they misbehaving, or having fun. Who’s struggling or harming another on your very own street. What is inside that building or place that should not be. The country is only as safe as its people feel while sitting at home.

Your not knowing your neighbor in the past was by choice. You may not have liked him all that well yet you’d rally to his side in need. That need is here as never before except in fiction, or some other land. Indivisible as a nation is achieved by all being one. One nation caring to be different enough to worry about each and every one of its citizen’s well being.

No American is ever alone in their belief of freedom. The same freedom that makes us vulnerable to attacks from within as well as out. It was neighbor’s banded together that gave us this way of life. It is time for neighbors to take down the fence and shack hands congratulating one another on a job well done. Who knows you may even get a job or advice and a hand. At any rate you would you would eliminate all of the hidey-holes those who mean us harm can use, and make a friend or two.

Life Without Mother’s

Ever stop to think what life would be like without Mother’s giving birth,

There would still be flowers, rivers, sunrise, sunset, without man on earth.

Without man on earth sounds pretty sad to me,

Then you would have to say Mother’s should be treated reverently.

Hug your Mom and treat her with care,

For without her love, you would not be here.

Do not add to her burdens or grief,

Instead be her supporter and relief.

Live each day with her in your mind,

Also respecting all of her kind.

Every Mom deserves better then they get,

Though no matter what they love you yet.

Mother’s Day should be every day of the year,

For the greatest shame should be causing her to tear.

I can not believe, and yet it is true,

We have made contact from out of the blue.

Speaking all languages so all of earth could hear,

As if reading my mind their answers were clear.

Everyone around me asking away,

I can not believe I lived to see this day.

Cures for everything both known and unknown,

Ways to restore nature from the seeds we’ve sown.

Unimagined power sources, and weather control,

Answering everyone, we all had a role.

Building resources, devices, all maintenance free,

Ways of improving all that we see.

I can not believe, yet it is happening today,

No matter the question, they know what to say.

There’s cheering and crying as everyone’s outside,

Their voices growing louder, when suddenly the answers died.

I can not believe that the voice went silent,

People were asking, and no answers drove them violent.

Arguing with one another why,

Wondering some if there was a voice from the sky.

I can not believe the changes in the crowd,

Many felt not answering, simply was not allowed.

When all of a sudden a voice was heard,

It said to give these gifts absurd.

When next we return from outer space,

We hope to find a united race.

I found myself tearing up as I watched the event happen all over again on TV last night. I prayed for all the victims again and slept not a wink. I remember going into the city from Long Island and picking up rubble. I was crying then too. I did not lose anyone myself, yet each and every life lost that day, deserved more then my tears. They were my countryman and innocent. Killed in the name of someone else's god. If such a god really existed I fear the planet would be empty of all life. The followers of such a god must really fear all Americans to attack the unknowing without care. They are not strong enough to stand side by side and face freedom head on. They can never win so they hide. Too cowardly to face even one of us in the open. Plotting and planning and losing. No hope of ever winning a great battle. To afraid to show their faces. Too scared of the American sprit I say. One nation under a god of love. A land filled with those so strong of heart no enemy could ever overcome in a fair fight. I pity them. I fear them not. I pray for their souls. I challenge any of them to a one on one. I may be old, but by God I am American and proud. I come from the land of the free, and the home of the brave. My nation has always been honorable in battle and aide. We open our land to all seeking freedom. To be an American is an honor today as in our past. No act of terror will alter our faith in mankind. It will make us cry. So hide in your caves and holes fearing freedom.